Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What fascinates me is the authority with which Forman makes his technical "errors." One senses in his Walt Whitman-like momentum and in the obvious abundance of his love the potential power to create a new propriety, to make today's errors tomorrow's principles. Specifically, Forman often neglects to "place" his scenes properly in space. It is hard to lay down principles by which proper placement can be achieved, but by negative example, the color cartoon often violates such principles deliberately, for humorous effect. Thus, when Tom or Jerry gets flattened by a train steaming out of a direction...
...Cabot and Whitman nearly two-thirds of the girls had reservations about extending parietals...
...Whitman -- where at first two-thirds of the girls were against extending parietals -- a poster on the main door tried to persuade them that "The disadvantages of parietals are largely fictional. This is a case of the majority tyrannizing the majority...
Among other stories during the year that provoked especially heavy reader response were our selection of America's best teachers; the story and psychological analysis of the Texas mass murderer, Charles Whitman; the cover story on Danny Escobedo and the drastic changes taking place in U.S. criminal law; and the ode to middle age, starring Lauren Bacall. Essay moved into its second year with its usual catholicity of concern, ranging from today's philosophers to suicide. This week the section salutes a new year by attempting a new device: an essay in play form, written by Stefan Kanfer...
Also Sally S. Seaver, of Moors Hall and Fayetteville, N.Y. (Chemistry); Ethel M. Silverman, of Comstock Hall and Clifton, N.J. (Biology); Elizabeth K. Smith, of Coggeshall House and Lorain, Ohio (Economics); Anita E. Spertus, of Jordan W and Glencoe, III. (Near Eastern Languages); Eleanor B. Swift, of Whitman Hall and Chicago (History); and Nancy L. Uhlar, of Wolbach Hall and Valley Stream, N.Y. (History and Literature...